@gdy2shoez
The wordpress.com site was under continuous series of DDOS attacks yesterday and previous to that that were not trivial in nature. Staff had a heck of a job before them but they accomplished putting blocks in place. Please use the link above and contact them about gaining access to your own blog.

Yes, it's a regional thing. It's particularly bad in Singapore and Indonesia. Apparently also in Australia.
And Russia. I was in a chat room and I suddenly saw ALL the Russian people quit at the same second. Like, forty of them. That was a rare opportunity to actually WATCH the internet go down.

@TT - I'm just wondering - the techo in me - but this DDoS attack seems to coincide with the dramactic increase in spam referrer activity. I've not seen the sort of activity I am seeing with those before at it seems they started at around the same time. Is it not quite curious to get multiple hits (20 - 40) from the same spam referrer? Or was I just lucky before?

@TT - yes, but they'd also already know the answer to my question! :)) Hackers are weird people anyway - I've never understood the mentality required. Maybe I am too old! I probably just upset them some more. :((

Did you know that way back in the birth of the computer to be called a "Hacker" was a supreme compliment - a title bestowed by your peers for doing something that had not been done before or a real clever way to do something.

Read Hackers by Steven Levy (I think I got the last name right) - the first Hackers came from MIT and the Switches and Power supply sub committee of the Model Railroad Club.